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This is every performance of Coke's music that has so far been traced, from his schooldays at Eton in 1929 to the present, assembled from printed programmes, press notices, Radio Times billings, his mother's household accounts and the composer's own annotations. It is not a complete record and it cannot be: he was played most often in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, sometimes in a converted stable at his own house, and much of that went unreported. There is a gap of twenty-five years between 1987 and 2012 in which exactly one performance has been found. If you know of a concert that is missing, or have a programme, a cutting or a memory of hearing this music, please do get in touch.

1940

Concert

22nd September3pmBrookhill Hall

Performers
Brookhill Symphony Orchestra Roger Sacheverell Coke (conductor and piano) F. H. Jessop (conductor) Cecile Lanyon (soprano)
Programme
Coke
3 new works by R. S. Coke
Coke
Symphony No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 (Premiere)
Coke
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E♭, Op. 30
Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture
Coke
Vocal Concerto No. 1, Op. 25
Notes
The Musical Times recital notice says that this was the first performance by the Brookhill Symphony Orchestra. The Musical Opinion citation is dated only to October 1940.
Source
Poster Musical Times, November 1940 Western Daily Press, 4 October 1940 Nottingham Journal, 28 August 1940 Musical Opinion
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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